STGC 6th Form School Leaving 2020

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  1. Good morning, everyone.
  2. And special reading store six form school leavers and my
  3. congratulations to you this morning.
  4. I'm so sorry that I'm not able to be with
  5. you physically this morning.
  6. But please know that you are in my thoughts.
  7. There is so much that is strange and knew about
  8. these last few months that by no strange and new
  9. may not even scare us anymore.
  10. And so even as I address you by distance this
  11. morning and we may feel a little discomforted by the
  12. strangeness of it I give thanks to God that in
  13. such a time as this the support available bad advancements
  14. in technology facilitate this mood of addressing you.
  15. These are indeed exciting times called in 19 is disrupting
  16. systems around the world, redefining work, school, church friendship and
  17. all other social interactions.
  18. The global landscape has changed and will continue to change
  19. as we adapt to the reality off this pandemic.
  20. But know this you are stronger than this pandemic and
  21. I invite you and encourage you to reap its benefits.
  22. Benefits you might ask Yes.
  23. Benefits. The earth thrived when we were locked away at
  24. home. Can we innovate to share the earth with other
  25. living things that it continues to recover from the onslaught
  26. of man.
  27. The positive use of technology in education increased.
  28. Can we build that while we work to remove inequity
  29. for the poor who are not able to exploit the
  30. benefits of technology or dependence on certain types of income
  31. have been highlighted as those sources were lost.
  32. Can we fortify our country by innovating new sources of
  33. income? These are not easy questions, and they might not
  34. be questions at a school.
  35. Evil can answer.
  36. And so here is my challenge to you.
  37. Don't be a school leaver.
  38. Study beyond the building.
  39. Learn beyond the campus.
  40. Grow beyond the classroom.
  41. Be a life long learner.
  42. Continue your schooling formally and informally, passionately learned all that
  43. you can and then use that learning in big ways
  44. to fix the world or theme for the twin to
  45. 2020 21 School year says it all.
  46. Learn, grow, adapt the future.
  47. The present demands it.
  48. I close this morning with a caution.
  49. As we learn, grow and adapt, we become more creative,
  50. innovative and self reliance all very good things.
  51. We may, however, be tempted to forget the author and
  52. finisher of our lives.
  53. So I want to encourage you to see cold and
  54. remain in the will of God.
  55. Your best self your greatest poet positively transform the world
  56. is to be phoned in Michael six Verse eight where
  57. it tells us he has shown you, O man, what
  58. is good and what does the Lord require of you
  59. but to do justly to love mercy and to walk
  60. humbly with your God.
  61. And so this morning as I close, I want to
  62. encourage you again to learn, grow, adapt be Just be
  63. merciful Walk humbly with God and change the world May
  64. God bless you all.